Biography

Elizabeth Gillies

Posted on Sep 21, 2020, Modified : Sep 22, 2020 manish

Quick Info
Full Name	Elizabeth Egan Gillies
Date of Birth	July 26, 1993
Birth Place	Haworth, New Jersey
Parents	Dave Gillies (Father) Lorrie Gillies (Mother)
Profession	Actress, Singer, Writer, Dancer
Husband	Michael Corcoran (Present)
Age	27 years
Height	5 ft 7 in
Weight	60 kg
Net Worth	US $3 million

EARLY LIFE

Elizabeth Gillies was born on July 26, 1993, in Haworth, New Jersey as a child of father Dave Gillies and mother Lorrie Gillies, whose nationality is American. As a sibling, she had a younger brother who was George Gillies, born in 1996. Elizabeth had got an Irish ancestry with an Italian grandmother and great-grandmother. Gillies started her career when she was just 12 years old by attending the local open casting calls. After that, Elizabeth Gillies did some commercials for companies such as Virgin Mobile, best known for the wireless transmissions brand adopted by seven independent brand-licenses globally.

To focus on her acting career, she left her school and attended the online high school program. Gillies can be seen repeatedly in the television series “The Black Donnellys,” debuted on NBC on February 26, 2007. She had told that she was restricted to watch the finish shown in its entirety because her parents felt that it was not good for her at that age, so she has only appeared in three episodes. Later, Elizabeth Gillieshad played a small role in the American teen comedy-drama film “The Clique,” directed by Michael Lembeck.

Elizabeth Gillies has also appeared with a short role in the movie “Harold” and “Locker 514”. After that, she is a cast in Goodspeed Production of Jason Robert Brown’s new musical “13,” where she appeared as Lucy. She was also a cast in the show Victorious with co-start, Ariana Grande, and In that year, he made her first Broadcast production by musical “13.”

CAREER

Elizabeth Gillies accomplished herself as an actor and singer from her childhood. She did some small roles in movies and series and the musical field; she was shinning. Gillies got offers in a show where she played the bad girl and occasional opponent character as a ”Jade West” in the Nickelodeon, which is an American pay television channel show “Victorious.” It’s her second time working with co-star Ariana Grande who is a famous American singer and songwriter as well as an actress.

To talk about her character in “Victorious,” she stated that she loved playing the character of Jade, who was not that much of a mean girl but the bad one. Elizabeth Gillies said that it was fun to do the role of Jade because the part has lots of human qualities, and she is not only sociopathic. She knows how to be sweet with her boyfriend. Hence, she felt pleased to have an opportunity to play the character as a Jade.

When she was busy with “Victorious,” she was also promoted to various songs on the soundtracks Victorious and even in Victorious 2.0, which consists of “Give It Up” and “Take a Hint.” “Give It Up” was a duet with Ariana Grande, and “Take a Hint” was a duet with Victoria Justice.

After that, she recorded the song ”You Don’t Know Me.” She also wrote it for the Victorious episode, and it gets highlighted in Victorious 3.0. After having success, she used her voice in an Italian-American animated series “Winx Club” co-produced by Rainbow SpA and Nickelodeon. Also, she recorded Winx Club’s official song, whose title was “We Are Believix.” Elizabeth Gillies appears in the episodes of “Big Time Rush,” an American musical comedy television series initially publicized on Nickelodeon. She came as a contestant on the “BrainSurger” children’s show that gets publicity on Nickelodeon.

Another one shows that Elizabeth Gillies came as a contestant was “Figure It Out,” which is also an American children’s panel game show aired on Nickelodeon. At the beginning of 2012, Elizabeth Gillies started to play the small guest role, not from Nickelodeon. “White Coller” and “The Exes” are her remarkable attend from outside the Nickelodeon. Later she also wanted to expand her singing career, so she decided to work on a rock album as an alternative.

The show Victorious was ended by the year 2013, February 2, but after completion of four seasons, there was a cancellation of the series, so Gillies decided to take some time off from acting. After taking some break from her busy schedule, she had been as a Courtney in the musical adaptation of Jawbreaker, which was a comedy film written and directed by Darren Stein. She took participated in a reading of the show, which is in Manhattan. Furthermore, Elizabeth Gillies is back with a duet of “Santa Baby” song with Ariana Grande for the latter’s Christmas Kisses.

After this, she played in the horror movie “Animal” as Mandy, directed by Brett Simmons. She also appears in the film “Killing Daddy,” which she expresses on Lifetime in the character of Callie Ross. In 2015, she had got chance to play the role of Heather in the remake of “Vacation,” which is the comedy film written and directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley.

After the success of “vacation,” she was cast in the movie “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll,” which was an American comedy television series created by Denis Leary as Gigi. People loved her character as a Gigi, and she received a positive response. After she was in the role of Fallon Carrington, which is a fictional character from The CW television series Dynasty and she receives many more offers in the film like Arizona as Kelsey and more.

PERSONAL LIFE

Elizabeth Gillies, who had earned success on both acting and singing, got married to music producer Michael Corcoran on August 8, 2020, which was done privately in New Jersey.